Stamp holder



March 6, 1928;

* 1,661,394 A. R. TALLMAN STAMP HOLDER Filed gu 20, 1925 djLfalmm swunm foz Patented Mar. 6, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' STAMP HOLDER? Application filed August 20, 1925.

This invention aims to provide novel means whereby postage stamps, in a strip, may be carried in the cap of a fountain pen or other article, novel means being provided for holding the stamps, in a roll, within the cap, it being possible to gain access to the stamps, readily, notwithstanding the fact that the stamps are located within the cap.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

Vith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made Within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings :Figure 1 shows in longitudinal section, a device constructed in accordance with the invention and mounted in a cap on afountain pen; Figure 2 is a longitudinal section showing the closure and parts associated therewith, removed from the cap.

Referring to Figure 1, in connection with Figure 2, there is shown a tubular cap 1 adapted to be mounted on a fountain pen 2 or other article. The cap 1 comprises a tubular body and a closure or support 4 detachably mounted, in any suitable way, on one end of the body 3. As shown, but not of necessity. the closure 4 has a reduced neck 5 which is threaded at 6 into one end of the body 3 of the cap 1.

A stamp carrier 7 projects from the neck 5 of the closure 4, and. for the sake of lightness, may be of tubular form. At its outer end, the carrier 7 has a lateral holding element, such as a flange 8. A stamp retainer 9, generally in the form of a ring, is disposed Serial No. 51,415.

about the carrier 7 and is of considerably greater diameter than the carrier. The flange 8 .is wide enough so that the retainer or ring 9 cannot become detached from the carrier 7.

The stamps 10, in the form of a strip, are wound about the carrier 7, as shown in Figure 2, and the retainer 9 is slid over the stamps, to hold them in a roll on the carrier. The carrier 7 is lon enough, and the space between the end. of the neck 5 and the holding flange 8 is such, that a space 11 exists at one end of the roll of stamps, and consequently, the retainer 9 can be slid endwise, oii' the roll of stamps, into that space, when it is desired to detach one or more stamps from the roll. In order to gain access to the stamps, the closure 4 is removed from the cap 1 by threading the neck 5 of the closure out of the cap. The flange 8 is called a holding flange, or element, because it prevents the roll 10 of stamps from sliding oil the carrier 7 W'hat is claimed is 1. A device of the class described, comprising a support, a stamp carrier projecting from the support and provided at its outer end with a lateral holding element, and a movable stamp retainer disposed about the carrier and located. between the holding element and the support, the distance be tween the holding element and the support being such that the retainer may he slid endwise. ed a roll of stamps on the carrier.

2. A deviceof the class described. comprising a support, a stamp carrier projectingtrom the support, and a movable stamp retainer disposed about the carrier. the length of the carrier being such that the retainer may he slid, toward the support, off a roll of stamps on the carrier.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature.

ALBERT ROMAINE TALLMAN. 

